Confessions of a cat

Drupal and Joomla are two of the most widely-spread and used open source content management systems (CMS) in recent years.

They are both quite usable and provide lots of functionality. The age-old question of which one is better makes no sense. Because how useful any of them to you is a question of taste and requirements

What follows is by no means a comprehensive guide. It is just a brain-dump of my current views on this topic. So feel free to add your comments if you feel I severely lacked something.

If you have not got (much or any) experience with any of them, let me show you two recent and quite prominent examples:

http://www.linux.com/ - is a joomla site

http://www.foreignaffairs.com/ - is a drupal site

The way to identify them is usually looking at the source code.

• Drupal usually has references to something like ‘/sites/…’ and ‘/files/…’. Or you could try adding /user to the URL of a drupal site and it should show you a login screen (if not overridden via views or custom url rewrites, htaccess otr any other way - usually not)
• Joomla’s admin URL is at /administrator. However this URL also can be renamed or redirected via htaccess rewrites so it does not always work. In the case of linux.com it has been disabled. But there’s an other way to spot joomla sites: look for references to ‘/templates/…’, ‘/media/…’, ‘/components/…’, .’/plugins/…’ in the source code. The more you found them the better chance of it being a joomla site. You can also try adding ?tp=1 to the URL which enables something called a template preview. It will highlight the different modules positions on the site To me best knowledge it cannot be disabled (maybe by hacking the core code only)

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